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I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don’t know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he’s said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:

This is what the radical feminist movement was proposing, remember? Women need a man the way a fish needs a bicycle… unless it turns out that they’re little fish, then you might need another fish around to help take care of things.

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By objectification of women, do you mean that there are actual standards of beauty and that there are many people in popular culture who we have been told are supposed to be seen as beautiful who are not objectively beautiful? Obviously that’s true. Obviously that’s true. If you polled men on whether Lizzo is beautiful–and I say Lizzo is not by any classical definition a beautiful person–that does not mean that that is objectification of women, that just means that there is a standard called beauty and it has meaning. -Ben Shapiro

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Freedom is an invention of the last couple of centuries. It really did not exist en masse until the last couple of centuries–and even then, really only since the end of the Soviet Union has it been sorta the broad movement of the public across the world. -Ben Shapiro

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If you like socialism so much why don’t you go to Venezuela?

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I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don’t know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he’s said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:

Let’s say your life depended on the following choice today: you must obtain either an affordable chair or an affordable X-ray. Which would you choose to obtain? Obviously, you’d choose the chair. That’s because there are many types of chair, produced by scores of different companies and widely distributed. You could buy a $15 folding chair or a $1,000 antique without the slightest difficulty. By contrast, to obtain an X-ray you’d have to work with your insurance company, wait for an appointment, and then haggle over price. Why? Because the medical market is far more regulated — thanks to the widespread perception that health care is a “right” — than the chair market. Does that sound soulless? True soullessness is depriving people of the choices they require because you’re more interested in patting yourself on the back by inventing rights than by incentivizing the creation of goods and services. In health care, we could use a lot less virtue signaling and a lot less government. Or we could just read Senator Sanders’s tweets while we wait in line for a government-sponsored surgery — dying, presumably, in a decrepit chair.